Re: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Brian Tarbox <btarbox(at)theworld(dot)com>
Cc: Rafal Kedziorski <rafcio(at)polonium(dot)de>, <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL
Date: 2003-07-04 13:50:26
Message-ID: 20030704214951.L12459-100000@houston.familyhealth.com.au
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> I recently took a system from MySQL to Postgres. Same HW, SW, same data.
> The major operations where moderately complex queries (joins on 8 tables).
>
> The results we got was that Postgres was fully 3 times slower than MySql.
> We were on this list a fair bit looking for answers and tried all the
> standard answers. It was still much much much slower.

I have never found a query in MySQL that was faster than one in
PostgreSQL.

Chris

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